Roots, the album, returns the legendary Johnny Winter to his roots by paying homage to the iconic blues heroes whose pioneering music influenced his own signature sound. Roots is the follow-up to his Grammy-nominated "I'm A Blues Man", and includes a host of special guests join Winter trading licks in honoring his idols.

About Johnny: When you talk about Johnny Winter, you are talking about a person who walked with the originators of the artform. A man who played Woodstock, jammed with everyone from Muddy Waters to Jimi Hendrix, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan - the list is full of endless icons.

Johnny Winter has been the unofficial torch-bearer for the blues, championing and aiding the careers of his idols like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Johnny had a special relationship with Muddy Waters and is often credited with revitalizing the legendary guitarist, where Winter produced and played on Waters' Grammy-winning comeback album "Hard Again", Grammy-winning "I'm Ready" (1978), Grammy-winning "Muddy Mississippi Waters Live" (1979) and also "King Bee" (1980). Johnny was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988.

"It's all old material that I grew up being influenced by," Winter tells Billboard.com. "I do a lot of songs I grew up loving. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time. It actually is my manager's idea, but I love it."